Industries

To remain a cut above the rest, multinational and domestic companies the world over must provide tailored, end-to-end solutions through each segment and sector of the supply chain network. These solutions frequently require a highly skilled workforce and must respond to just-in-time needs.

 

With a constrictive regulatory and security environment relating to the shipment of goods to and from many countries worldwide, the immigration challenges generated by activity in the transportation, warehousing and logistics industries have become complex, and are often urgent.

 

Understanding these demands, our firm has years of experience helping clients within these industries to successfully compete for skilled mobile talent and to satisfy workforce and immigration regulatory requirements.

 

By providing targeted immigration guidance and support, we help our clients fulfill skilled and unskilled labor demands, and meet distribution commitments for positions, enterprises and issues. 

 

Specifically, we support the immigration needs of clients working with:

 

• Passengers and cargo
• Warehousing and storage of goods
• Scenic and sightseeing transportation
• Management, planning and execution of the movement of goods
• Materials handling
• Supply and demand planning and order fulfillment
• Logistics network design
• Support activities related to modes of transportation

For decades, our firm has helped technology companies—ranging from start-ups to the world’s leading technology corporations—to create and maintain world-class immigration programs. 

 

We have grown alongside technology companies as they evolve from just the spark of an idea to creating advanced industry solutions, and from working within a single office to managing expansive global operations.

 

With immigration programs that maximize both the talents of gifted technology professionals and innovative immigration strategies, we help our technology industry clients remain both relevant and dynamic in their market space.

As a standalone industry, the technology sector is vital to the global economy. Technology itself is also an essential component of the vast majority of other industries.  

 

Almost every business—from the local restaurant or pub to the world’s largest multinational conglomerates—uses technology to streamline their business processes and track and reduce their costs.

 

Technology companies need to ensure that their customers are highly satisfied with their products and their supporting services, which frequently requires the deployment of specialized resources.  

 

By partnering with us to keep your workforce mobile and compliant, your employees can be on-the-ground faster, where and when you need them.

Experience in the essential aspects of immigration law and critical aspects of professional sports including issues related to collective bargaining agreements and rules governing specific sports.

 

In the professional sports arena, immigration programs can be divided into three principal beneficiary groups:

 

 

For professional athletes, we handle P-1 petitions and O-1 petitions and applications for permanent residence including Extraordinary Ability petitions.

 

For essential support personnel, including coaches, we handle P-1S and O-1 petitions and permanent residence applications including Extraordinary Ability petitions and PERM.

 

For related professional sports professionals ranging from referees to scouts to media and event experts, we prepare and file nonimmigrant visa petitions as well as permanent residence applications.

Immigration has always been a critical component of economic growth in the retail and wholesale trade industries.

Both direct sales and after-sales service frequently require both skilled and unskilled laborers to travel on short notice for unanticipated projects or to fill urgent needs. Employers need accessibility to the right resources to meet their labor needs, and ultimately to support and increase their bottom line. 

Our firm’s immigration guidance and services address these and other unique needs within the industries, taking into account tight project timelines; changing demands and priorities based on market demand; and the challenges faced by certain categories of workers when applying for work authorization.

Our public utility clients are leaders in the field. They have distinctive staffing needs, and increasing opportunities to change the quality of life and health in the world by improving and establishing global utilities.

 

Our clients have found that an effective immigration program is vital to remaining competitive and securing the skilled and mobile talent needed to sustain and develop utilities around the world.

At Fragomen, we leverage our understanding of public utility labor demographics, issues and challenges—along with our exceptional immigration and regional experience—to support our public utilities clients wherever they have a need.

Our experience in the professional services industry helps us provide you with relevant guidance on best practices in immigration policies and programs that might impact your employees, and we can thus provide advice on immigration administrative models that have proven successful for companies that are similar to you. 

 

We also appreciate the need to make employees comfortable throughout the process and we are aware of the importance of providing high quality services to foreign national employees.

These are some of the areas we benchmark for our professional services clientele: corporate policies and practices, legal strategies, government adjudicatory trends, and best practices.

We have extensive experience in preparing outstanding researcher and extraordinary ability petitions, establishing recruitment programs for scientific and technical positions, and preparing complex cases such as national interest waivers and 212(e) waivers.

 

We have worked with our clients to establish procedures to ensure compliance with all Department of Labor regulations relating to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (e.g., Form I-9) and Labor Condition Applications. We conduct training seminars with the appropriate personnel to ensure industry best practices are utilized.

Our understanding of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry allows us to provide clients in the industry with guidance on immigration best practices and the involvement of in-house resources in the management of immigration matters.

 

We understand that the pharmaceutical programs of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies wish to provide high quality services to their foreign national employees and we can recommend immigration administrative models that have been most successful to companies in the industry.

We also conduct specific research with regard to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, and gather information from industry professionals on the anticipated affect that changes to immigration law may have on their immigration programs or the impact that industry changes may have on the mobility of their employees.

 

In turn, we utilize this information in a strategic way to help our clients develop immigration policy that aligns with their business needs and which incorporates important changes in the industry.

We partner with these clients as they assess their immigration needs for global growth, while considering: 

 

Foreign nationals—many of whom are also potential future corporate leaders—are needed to fill skilled positions that include:

 

To remain competitive, our programs must keep pace with the rate of change in your industry; customized to your needs and flexible; and address the rising need for skilled talent in all parts of the world. 

Fragomen understands the range of regional differences in the media and communications industry, and that nuanced challenges can impact your immigration program. Our guidance is timely, cost-effective, efficient, and tailored to your specific business concerns  and the global market you are staffing.

We bring our manufacturing clients a solid understanding of the immigration context, elements and options available in various jurisdictions worldwide—helping to support their recruitment of skilled talent and retention and compliance through active program management and guidance. Our manufacturing clients’ staffing needs are constant, and they have a broad regional reach into many areas of the world.

 

Our firm’s extensive knowledge of the immigration challenges and complications faced by companies and international workers within your industry—and our history of helping clients within the industry to successfully address them—is bolstered by our reach across many of the most popular destinations for manufacturing worldwide. 

 

By maintaining a network of offices and professionals across the globe, we are there when you need us, where you need us.

Companies within this industry are always looking to grow and expand into new and emerging markets. To enable this, businesses need their most skilled and experienced workers to bring the company’s brand and standards to its new employees and market audience. Without this, new operations can fail, resulting in a ripple-effect that dilutes the company’s worldwide brand and image.

As a worldwide and client-focused firm, we understand first-hand how important it is bring your most dedicated, experienced and talented professionals to the places where you need them most. We are experienced in meeting the immigration needs of companies from all parts of the leisure and hospitality industry, many of which have seasonal and time-sensitive needs during peak periods.

These include:

 

The strategic solutions we provide to our leisure and hospitality clients are innovative and forward-looking—and always incorporate best practices. This gives our clients piece of mind that their immigration program is—and will continue to be—the best in the business.

In this highly competitive and sometimes protectionist environment, Fragomen’s health care clients know that working with accomplished and knowledgeable immigration counsel is more critical than ever.

 

The current global health care industry demands a strong understanding of regional and local regulations and immigration benefits available to hospitals, physicians, nurses, physical therapists, allied health professionals, and non-medical professionals supporting the industry.

 

We work diligently to stay ahead of health care trends and issues that affect the immigration needs of health care employers, in order to provide proactive and strategic immigration support to our health care clients.

Our Energy & Resources practice group, also known as EMEC, has over 20 years of combined experience providing innovative immigration solutions to clients in the energy, maritime, mining and engineering & construction industries.

 

We provide global solutions with personalized service through the collaborative efforts of our professionals around the world. This industry is ever evolving in its immigration challenges. Let the demonstrated expertise of our Energy & Resources practice find the way forward.

 

Our clients’ business operations span all areas of the industry sector, including:

 

 

Our industry professionals leverage the firm’s global knowledge and extensive resources to design innovative immigration strategies and options for our clients. With a focus on compliant solutions, we promote immigration as a key component of the bidding, awarding and execution of projects.

 

We tailor our services to each client based on the infrastructure and requirements unique to the specific phase of a project lifecycle. As we develop solutions, we anticipate and incorporate the client’s future needs.

 

The following are a few examples of the type of customized solutions we have developed for our industry clients:

 

 

In recent years, the international demand for experienced temporary foreign workers in the EMEC industries has skyrocketed. By leveraging Fragomen’s infrastructure and experience,  EMEC companies can better manage large-scale projects and the rapid deployment of workers. 

 

We also have the government relationships to appropriately represent the needs of our clients and influence legislative change. Working with government agencies is an important component of our immigration services. Our professionals have cultivated the appropriate connections on the government level, and have previously held positions with a range of government agencies and embassies around the world.

 

We assist with the full range of business immigration transactions affecting clients in the sector. From temporary work permits to back-to-back assignments at different installations around the world, Fragomen can meet all of your immigration needs.

 

As the complexity of the energy, maritime, mining, engineering and construction immigration environment continues to increase, so does the need to work with professionals who have the experience, knowledge and training to support the needs of businesses in this distinct industry.

 

To meet this demand, we have developed teams of specialized immigration attorneys and professionals in key energy locations around the world. These professionals partner with companies through all phases of the project lifecycle–providing strategic support to help manage immigration programs, special projects and individual cases.

We know the retail environment, and understand its global challenges and opportunities. We appreciate the dynamic nature of the business and its numerous components, including:

 

 

We design home and host immigration solutions and systems for a range of business units in the consumer products and packaged goods environment, including:

 

 

​We also know that an efficient process is critical to your success, and can define the immigration models that work best for companies like yours.

Fragomen has a tradition of matching services to each clients’ needs, offering flexibility in the level and type of assistance that best suits specific employee groups, a particular business situation or a set of objectives.

 

Whether high-tech or high-touch is required, we build relationships based on trust and we are committed to supporting the immigration deliverables most appropriate for your employees and lines of business.

 

This makes it imperative that employers within this industry know their options for obtaining the immigration status that leading foreign professionals need to work and live in their chosen destinations. Once an institution finds and hires the talent they need, they must also adhere to strict program compliance requirements in many jurisdictions, which can be complex and overwhelming. 

We break down these complex processes to make it easy for companies to get the visas, work permits and other immigration benefits that they and their foreign nationals need.

 

Our collective experience is far-reaching and extends from detailed knowledge of immigration regulations and requirements common to academic institutions and related nonprofit organizations to applicable enforcement procedures and potential penalties for noncompliance.

 

Our presence in many locations near major learning centers worldwide has given us critical experience with governmental agencies and decision-makers in many jurisdictions, allowing us to facilitate smooth applications for immigration benefits by professionals within this industry.

We provide our academic and related nonprofit clients with the strategies and guidance they need to hire and retain top talent no matter where they come from. This includes program management recommendations to support compliance with immigration rules, and training programs for in-house immigration staff, placement office staff, and counselors.

 

We can educate your staff working on immigration matters on immigration issues related to employment within the school, medical/research environment or corporation—helping them to seek and identify potential immigration issues for your valuable foreign national resources.

Academic Experience and Groups
Our Academic Services Practice Group focuses on providing immigration benchmarking and support related to specific issues faced by educational institutions and associated nonprofit organizations. Professional members of this group lecture regularly on topics including:
 

 

Our various offices around the globe are also involved in bringing university and other academically-focus institutions together to cultivate best practices, facilitate discussion about common immigration issues faced by the industry, and identify improvements to suggest to local governmental immigration authorities. For example, in Australia, we have facilitated round table discussions between universities from around the country, which have allowed us to recommend targeted changes to the government—a number of which have been adopted. We have also hosted workshops for universities to discuss relevant immigration issues and possible process improvements.

Consultative services can be particularly critical to helping academic institutions and related organizations maintain successful immigration program management and compliance. As a result, we have developed resources to assist with this important function. In the U.S., Fragomen is actively involved in counseling institutions on SEVP and SEVIS compliance.

 

Our International Exchange Compliance Consulting Group helps our educational clients comply with current and envisioned government standards and best practices, and provides consultative services related to agency programs. To do this, professionals in this group utilize our deep understanding of the day-to-day demands of F and J program administration, SEVIS operation, and SEVP policy and procedure.

In this fiercely competitive environment, it is more critical than ever to attract, maintain and retain an agile and dynamic financial services workforce. Having world-class immigration support can be the difference between being where a customer needs you when they need you, and losing out to a local competitor.

Fragomen has worked with financial services institutions of all sizes—from the largest in the world to independent operators.  We leverage our experience and understanding of the nuances and issues affecting your industry to help you implement guidelines and processes that align with your overall corporate objectives for immigration program delivery. This includes managing high volumes of immigration applications into multiple jurisdictions, making interactions easier, simplifying and improving processes, and easing the immigration experience for everyone involved.

Fragomen recognizes that the success and profitability of businesses within this sector partly depends on the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations, as well as their customer service, knowledge of local markets and specialization. Our own success depends on many of the same factors, giving us a unique empathy for the concerns and priorities of banks and financial services firms.

 

We benchmark corporate policies and practices; legal strategies; industry developments; and best practices within the industry.  We also closely follow government adjudicatory trends that may affect the options and accessibility of solutions available to professionals and other workers within this industry. As a result, we are able to recommend tailored and tactical solutions that directly meet the core needs of businesses in the financial services industry.

Accelerated globalization has led to a critical need for coordination of and assistance with immigration regulations and processes across multiple countries.

 

As industry participants struggle to keep pace with the mobility aspects of this this fast-paced change, operations, innovations and special projects can be hampered by immigration issues connected to:

 

 

Our automotive industry clients require the right talent to be in place as quickly and seamlessly as possible, and turn to us for critical and strategic immigration services and program management.

 

Our deep experience in providing immigration services to clients in the automotive industry brings a wealth of data and knowledge, and allows us to work with you to meet the unique needs generated by your industry sector.